Top executives and board members from national broadcaster to go before Oireachtas committee this afternoon
asks if there are any top ups or side deals to any other worker within RTÉ outside the top 10 earners.The rest say they're not aware of anything resembling this.“I have no faith in this cabal to tell us the truth,” Mr McGrath says concluding his contribution.The interim director general Adrian Lynch said he was “incredibly ashamed” that this had happened while he was sitting on the executive board. It was a corporate governance issue, not an editorial issue, he said.
We are committed to providing you with as much detail as possible and we wish to be as open and frank as we can The circumstances that led to this understatement by RTE are currently under examination by a second Grant Thornton review and the findings of that review are expected within four weeks. Why this figure was understated - and by whom - that is the question we as a Board are also very anxious to know the answer to.
As I have said previously, RTE is an organisation of more than 1,800 people. I apologise to each and every one of them for the distress they are experiencing as they deal with the shadow that has fallen over this organisation. An authoritative source close to Mr Tubridy, who is off the air this week because of the ructions over his hidden pay, the star presenter has challenged RTÉ's argument. In addition, Mr Tubridy is understood to be taking legal advice on the status of the contract settled in 2020.
Mr Varadkar said the Government also expected “a full and open engagement” from RTÉ executives at the Oireachtas committees this afternoon and tomorrow. “I don’t understand that and the minister [Catherine Martin] doesn’t understand that either, and we’ve made that clear,” he said.
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